Aphasia resources

155 printable resources for Aphasia: patient and caregiver education handouts, therapy materials, clinical references and evaluation tools for speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and physical therapists. Written and reviewed by practicing clinicians, ready to print, and included in a Therapy Insights membership.

Eval Tool

Quick, Informal Assessment of Prosody

Print Resource — US Letter — 2 pages
AdultSLPAphasiaMotor Speech/Dysarthria/Apraxia
Assessment of motor speech disorders can be lengthy as it should include obtaining case history, assessing a patient’s level of awareness, non-speech examination, speech production examination, as well as determining if there are comorbidities. This material provides a way to assess the characteristics of prosody.
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Handout

Mindfulness Exercise for SLPs: Aphasia Awareness

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultSLPAphasia
This exercise is intended to do two things: 1) Provide awareness about the existence of aphasia and how people can be most helpful when meeting someone with aphasia and 2) provide clinicians with a mindful perspective about what it means to be unable to communicate for a short period of time.
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Therapy Activity

Make-Your-Own-Communication-Board for People with Aphasia

Print Resource — US Letter — 5 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
A quick tool for SLPs to build custom communication boards for people with aphasia or other communication barriers. This digital download comes with 5 pages of icons (60 icons total). The patient can select words that they find useful. Cut, paste, laminate.
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Eval Tool

Low-Vision, Aphasia-Friendly Visual Pain Scale

Print Resource — US Letter — 1 page
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBrain InjuryVision
This legible, colorful, and graphics-based pain scale allows nursing and other care-giving staff to communicate with their patients about their level of pain throughout the day for the purposes of pain management.
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Therapy Activity

Feature Analysis Word Maps

Print Resource — US Letter — 10 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
Language therapy task with 10 pages of stunning photos with word maps tackling semantic feature analysis.
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Therapy Activity

Language Stories

Print Resource — US Letter — 5 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This activity features 4 engaging photos along with a list of content words to provide cues when asking clients to generate stories about the picture scenes.
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Therapy Activity

Visual Scanning + Language Task

Print Resource — US Letter — 25 pages
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBalance/Vestibular/FallsVision
This language task features 48 word squares that correlate to 48 single written word cards. The task is designed for speech-language pathologists working with people who have therapy goals related to word-finding, single word functional reading, and visual-spatial matching. Great for SLP-OT and SLP-PT co-treats!
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Therapy Activity

Inclusion/Exclusion of Categories

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultOTSLPAphasiaBrain Injury
Circle items that belong to a category and put an X through items that do not belong. This product contains three categories: Fruits, animals, and things that start with B.
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Therapy Activity

Language Task: Building a Medical History Form

Print Resource — US Letter — 7 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
This resource is for people who have aphasia or other communication impairments. It is based on the PACT method, published in The ASHA Leader, March 2016.
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Therapy Activity

Automatic Speech Scenes

Print Resource — US Letter — 3 pages
AdultSLPAphasia
These 12 scenes can be used to illicit spontaneous speech of common phrases, such as, “Thank you,” “Hello,” “Goodnight,” etc.
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